La rupture inéluctable has been performed in Bangor, Basel, Berlin, Birmingham, Chicago, Montréal, New York City and The Hague…

To Heather Roche

Four meditations on our metastable states

Happiness is so fragile, a kind of precarious and improbable balance: a multicolour soap bubble. How can one fully enjoy it despite the vertigo its transience induces? It seems that reflection on impermanence was, and forever will be, at the heart of self-conscience, both for the individual and society. This permanence should soothe me.

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La rupture inéluctable [The Ineluctable Rupture] was realized in 2010-11 at the composer’s studio and the studios of the University of Huddersfield (UK) and premiered by Heather Roche on November 3, 2011 during the concert live@CIRMMT: Ébène et métal in Montréal (Québec). The piece was commissioned by Heather Roche, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA).

Premiere

November 3, 2011, Heather Roche, bass clarinet • live @ CIRMMT: Ébène et métal: Heather Roche, Music Multimedia Room — Pavillon de musique Elizabeth Wirth — Université McGill, Montréal (Québec)

Details

La rupture inéluctable [The Ineluctable Rupture] (2010-11), 14:20

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

bass clarinet, processing, interactive system and multichannel fixed medium

Movements

Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas [Vanity of vanities; all is vanity], 4:26
Memento mori [Remember you will die], 3:15
Timor mortis conturbat me [The fear of death disturbs me], 1:59
Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero [Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future], 4:40

Most recent events

May 3, 2019

Chicago (Illinois, USA)

CHIMEFest 2019: Concert 2
April 1, 2016

The Hague (Netherlands)

Rewire Festival 2016: Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
March 8, 2015

Bangor (Wales, UK)

Bangor Music Festival 2015: Portrait of Pierre Alexandre Tremblay & Simon Emmerson
January 26, 2015

Berlin (Germany)

CTM Festival 2015: Un Tune I: Rezza, Tremblay
May 25, 2013

Birmingham (England, UK)

Vanishing Point: Concert 4 — Heather Roche
April 3, 2013

New York City (New York, USA)

NYCEMF 2013: Concert 2
November 8, 2012

Basel (Switzerland)

Nachtstrom 60: HISS spielt!
November 3, 2011

Montréal (Québec)

live @ CIRMMT: Ébène et métal: Heather Roche

Broadcasts

September 15, 2014: Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada)
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, La rupture inéluctable [The Ineluctable Rupture] (2010-11), 14:20
July 1, 2014: Beyond The Beyond / CHRW 94.7 FM (Canada)
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, La rupture inéluctable [The Ineluctable Rupture] (2010-11), 14:20
- Andrew Lewis / Andrew Lewis, Lexicon (2012), 16:35
March 6, 2014: Radiophon / Südwestrundfunk SWR2 (Germany)
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, La rupture inéluctable [The Ineluctable Rupture] (2010-11), 14:20
- Martin Bédard, Champs de fouilles (2008), 10:40
- Andrew Lewis, Dark Glass (2009-11, 13), 13:50
- Andrew Lewis, Cân (1997), 11:51
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Le tombeau des fondeurs [The Tomb of the Casters] (2008), 17:02
February 27, 2014: Musik Spezial: Radiophon / Südwestrundfunk SWR2 (Germany)
- David Berezan, Galungan (2010), 10:24
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, La rupture inéluctable [The Ineluctable Rupture] (2010-11), 14:20
February 22, 2014: Martian Gardens / WMUA 91.1 FM (USA)
- John Young / E E Cummings, Arrivederci (2005), 15:35
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, La rupture inéluctable [The Ineluctable Rupture] (2010-11), 14:20
January 12, 2014: Daniel Blumin / WFMU 91.1 FM (USA)
- Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, La rupture inéluctable [The Ineluctable Rupture] (2010-11), 14:20